aqim for the government it's kind of hard to sort through the descent from ation so that's where i come in a break to set. the world you've never seen anything like. here's a disturbing story a kansas city family was completely startled when they discovered a surveillance camera on a tree in their front yard take a look at this. police it was first learned about the camera last thursday after her father noticed it my dad came through the front door and said big brother is watching us and i don't know what he's talking about so he brings me to the back door and he points out the camera that he spotted while he was walking around the yard took these photos of the camera which he says were pointed at her bedroom her children's room the backyard where her children play but she says not knowing it initially why the camera was put there who put it it was most unsettling unsettling

indeed someone had been spying in her bedroom and on her children so of course actually the young woman decided to call and report to the cops but there was nothing to report because as soon as she called the police department they told her that they had been the ones to install the camera to monitor people coming through the woods but the woman claimed this made no sense and she suspects they were attempting to catch her father feeding stray cats she had been on probation for doing in the past year guys this is ludicrous a surveillance state against us is growing exponentially by the day and the rationale to spy on us is becoming ever more trivial at the same time the establishment is making it harder and harder to film them it's an issue our next guest knows very well he's been arrested multiple times for attempts to flip the camera on the cops so to talk about his experience fighting the police state explain what rights we have i'm joined by in freeman host of the nationally syndicated radio talk show free talk live and contributor. koppel walk in thank you

so much for taking the time thanks for having me so you were just arrested a couple weeks ago for recording video in a public place i mean you caught a good majority of the day on camera let's take a look at some of that footage. just because you post a sign does that mean you get to eliminate the freedom of the press and have you are familiar with the click decision. i'm just going to question i'm going to there is no video by the way turns out there's also a difference are in this town hall now have you heard of that they're just itching to shut off the video have you heard of the glick are you refusing to i don't know if using the shut off a video camera i don't know if i'm asking you have you heard of the click decision or this is ridiculous man you were here last time when i was recording so you got arrested for disorderly conduct not for filming i mean were they just trying to create a reason and explain why that collect decision is significant for incidents like this and others like it well sure glick decision was simon clinic he was an attorney in boston who was recording the police doing something to another person

and of course they arrested him for it and thankfully he's an attorney so it was easy for him to take it court and go all the way that supreme court and get a ruling that basically reaffirms your right as an individual to record government bureaucrats when they're on duty in any public place so that's what i was doing there at a town hall that day and the reason they charged me with disorderly conduct is because basically beating them down on the whole wiretapping claim so disorderly conduct it's always been that sort of this catchall or you know any activists doing something or anybody doing something they don't like if they don't actually have a lot of get you where they'll go with disorderly conduct or you know resisting arrest or some other catch all they have a handful of catches and that's one of them so even we know that some states have tried to make laws passed to make filming illegal to film cops i mean are. are

there any states that currently have these laws on the books preventing citizens from filming or have the courts kind of upheld the citizen's rights here. you know i can answer there's fifty different states there are some states like illinois where it's way worse than in other states like wiretapping laws of course some states or two party consent recording states versus one party where you know where for instance the federal law is one party in that if one person knows that there is a recording going on of a conversation then it's completely legal here in new hampshire for instance the two party state where everybody must know who is connected to a conversation that it's being recorded which makes doing undercover video work you know busting a bad business or something or in this case bad bureaucrats very difficult i don't even know what the situation is in massachusetts but it was pretty clear that i wasn't you know undercover or wiretapping in any way you know surreptitiously or secretly recording so that's why they came after me with a disorderly conduct charge and in theory i should be able to beat it but then

again the court system always tends to lean towards its own people i mean and being prosecuted by the you know by the same as are running the court and in a lot of cases are your defense attorneys i won't be accepting state attorney to defend me however i think i myself. say yeah good point i mean every state has has different laws of course founder adam mueller having to serve three months in jail for pacifically this recording a conversation trying to i mean they're recording everything that he can do so when you're trying to record a conversation or try to expose some sort of corruption of course the law comes down hard on us and i just want to ask you know the technology exists now to surveil their walls cops might have the ability to bring drugs if in dogs to your neighborhood and of course trap wire i mean the extensive surveillance apparatus all across the country collectively what is the biggest problem that arises from the surveillance state and. the. over time it your privacy just keeps getting

eroded ever further and the old question in the state defenders will ask is well if you don't have anything to hide why do you care and the thing is maybe you don't have anything to hide right now but eventually they might decide to make something that you do we legal and then you will have something to hide but by a bad point it might be too late and of course you always turn that question back around on them you know these government bureaucrats that are arresting camera people left and right what is the they have to hide what are they so afraid of maybe they're afraid people are going to see that they really are nothing more than just a criminal gang of governments nothing more than a criminal enterprise that's been very successful and they're so brazen they can fly flags out of their offices. we saw at the oscar grant video kelly thomas i would never know and we would never hold these people accountable even though of course initially didn't really get held accountable but i mean without video and without filming the cops we would never know what they're doing and of course the chilling effect is really the problem with the surveillance state and you

contribute a lot to cop block what rights do people have i don't think a lot of people know that they don't have to allow cops in their home they don't have to allow cops to search their car i mean where can people find out what their rights are just explain all of that more about what people can do to fight the police state well obviously cop lockdown org is a great resource lots of good information there. it's also do a good job of really laying out basic rights and you don't have an obligation to answer the door when the police are there obviously they show you that on their television shows cops for instance is always going to show people answering the door and talking to them you know hollywood movies are always going to show people going to the door and talking to the police so you don't have to do what you see them do on t.v. if the cops come to your house you have no obligation to answer talk to them in any way shape or form if you are driving they do say you know i'm no attorney and they say that you. you don't have to answer any questions beyond providing you know your

license and registration if you're driving if you're sitting in the passenger seat you don't have to provide them with anything in most places that i know of so you know for instance you can't be obligated to have a driver's license on you if you are driving people think about these things and they're trained to to answer questions the police are trained to be very intimidating so when the cops tell someone to do something they tend to do it and people need to think twice before they just jump to it and obey whatever it is that they're told to do because it's our obedience that has allowed things to become the way that they are if people would stand up for the rights that they supposedly have then maybe we would actually be able to retain them but as long as people keep giving up their freedoms keep being willing to go along to get along then we'll just keep losing more of it over time it's just with a little way absolutely what about just walking around i'm going to stop you and ask you you know do you have your idea on you and kind of bully i know that you

just said you don't really need to carry id or show cops that idea right and i were in some states claim that you have to tell them who you are in pain quire and i don't know which states those are up and obviously like i said there's a new of them but they can't possibly obligate you to have an id because it would require you to be going down to some government agency and submit yourself to their id in process you should be able to walk from point a to point b. without carrying identification but that doesn't mean they won't ask you and a car can stop you anywhere and ask you something just like any other human being can stop you on the street and ask you something but you don't have an obligation to answer their questions in fact one of the best things you can do is ask them questions and return you know the old sales outages that he had to ask the questions of swimming and so if you ask them a question am i being detained they usually have to answer that question and if you're not being detained then ask in my free to go and. and then get out of there

and go you know on with your day and be productive good tell you in a really good point for activists here to really get that firsthand and i've been detained if i'm not you can leave really important thank you so much for breaking all that down it is getting more pervasive and we really do need to know our rights most important thing we can know in one email i'm sorry continue to say one of the other most important things you can do is to get together with other people who think like you do so complicated or has the ability to you know kind of syndicated so if you will or duplicate to other areas of the different color block chapters around the country but there's a good group of them up here in new hampshire as part of the free state project where liberty minded people are all you know we're collecting in one place so we can be even more effective with our activism not web sites free state project dot org absolutely everyone check out cop locked out or free state project are going to go to new hampshire and check it out i heard there's a lot of cool stuff going on in freeman host of the nationally syndicated talk show

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you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. would be so much brighter if you knew about someone from files to christians. who threw stones on t.v. dot com.

parents versus social workers docu nabby pm last stop get any mean that kidnapping children have become prizes to fight full why does the law or threaten families of the social for if you see me in the form of they have a right of will hold many more faith in what they have any kind of for suspicion about the world more from the off your children are often just better at bringing up kids than their own mom and dad even from what we have an industry that is so. concentrated on the other for trade children. four years ago president obama gave an unprecedented speech in cairo aimed at undoing an aeroflot really. with the muslim world in

a speech the newly elected president projected his desire to turn the chapter of the past and embark on a new era of mutual understanding diplomacy and friendship and while many in the middle east were hopeful their optimism began to simmer as the arab spring turned into a bitter fall it became evident that palestine would remain ignored so now that obama has been elected for a second term what's the sentiment in the middle east and what actions can we expect from the president now that he's not seeking reelection to talk about all this and more i'm joined by our correspondent rima. thank you so much for coming on thank you for having so really i was reading about many egyptians relieved that obama got elected i want to read you this tweet that is a big sigh of relief from egypt the alternative was just too awful to consider do you think that the sentiment for many that are just so grateful that it's the lesser evil other people think that way it was a choice but we and a bad person and a worse a lot of them just think that way however i went through

a lot of tweets from the arab world i love them just said it doesn't really matter it doesn't really matter if obama got elected or romney got elected they are just two faces or two heads of the same quiet and the foreign policy of the u.s. is not going to change just because we have obama in power or we have romney i love that a lot of them were. very disappointed with obama that they think having either romney or obama is not just going to be any worse than the past four years and. couldn't agree more or less talk about israel you know a lot of people were talking to you during the lead up to the election the saying well here's the lesser of two evils you have romney who would definitely attack iran and then you have obama who would attack iran and i personally never saw any indication that obama would attack iran i mean he said no option was off the table he said that he would draw a hard line he's been catering to now. you know they've been competing for who can

you know cater toward you more so i mean really what do you think about vat like just the whole israel situation what do you think should have happened with iran and was there really between the two romney was not going to attack iran if there was an attack on iran it would be either romney or obama does not have it it's not the president who is going to take a decision like that it seems at least in the case of iran because when when romney was talking about iran he was talking about harsher out sanctions just what obama is doing right now i don't think either one of them is if he's going to go. to start a war against or to want to wage a war against iran it's not necessarily obama or romney if that decision is made that decision is made it's not romney is not going to start it obama is not going to start it they're just the same thing you know there's a little bit of. you know he was here for romney just because romney is much more

closer to the red line and he wanted to i. was i did a lot of reading about this seems as if people have mixed feelings about. feels right now that obama got reelected we have to mention that under obama's administration israel got more military aid and then under any other administration and they know that they realize that so for them to say even higher one thing that you asked to go. to another war just because they think that the red line should be here and not there and i think even netanyahu himself believes that this is probably too much let's just give it a shot try and if you throw it out there yeah it works it or it doesn't work that it doesn't work it is amazing that the bar just continues to be higher and higher in terms of. the money the military support. let's let's shift to see. i mean r t just in an exclusive interview with. assad do you think

that obama was waiting for reelection to really deal with syria i mean it's kind of something we can't ignore. the international community kind of has its eyes on the country what do you think's going to happen now that the reelection i think the arab world is divided over this some people say obama's not going to change his policies on syria he did have a chance before didn't use it he's not going to change now he has a lot more at stake at home to take care of. them icons are wary of another war they're just not going to do another war for syria or in syria however a lot of people think that no the us was just waiting for the elections to be over to store not necessarily a buffer zone but maybe more military aid to the opposition not necessarily again through the you out but through maybe other countries like saudi arabia qatar turkey you know any player on the ground so i mean we don't know exactly what's

going to happen but we we do have indications cameron the prime minister of england right after the election the reelection of obama was talking about a new plan for syria does that mean that they're going to do something in syria you know more probably more military aid again we don't know again this is something that's dividing the arab world they just cannot see a clear policy from obama towards the middle east. just that he's not going to stop that i mean he's going to die there just like gadhafi and we heard them talk about the no fly zones there's a lot of talk a lot of rhetoric being thrown around so it'll be very interesting to see how that plays out let's talk about palestinian statehood palestine is seeking statehood israel building twelve hundred. completely just has unabashed lawlessness just moving forward with this settlement. do you think anything is going to change now

that obama is reelected i mean a lot of people are hopeful thinkin oh maybe now that he doesn't have one eye on the elections. elections and another eye on domestic issues basically economy maybe he can do something about the palestinian israeli special because he was so enthusiastic in the first hour he just had so many hopes and he just laid them out in cairo everywhere honestly i believe that he probably realizes there is nothing that he can do about it not when that now is in power not when lieberman is in power not when they simply continue to build settlements to. even put more checkpoints between cities there simply dividing the country making it impossible for the palestinians to create there to create their own country or establish their own country and the bit at the u.n. this really is a readiness for and the palestinians they have the tax money that they're

withholding and they can you know do even or take more measures against the palestinians and is obama willing to maybe exercise pressure and as well that's something that a lot of people think well you know you have to lobby you have the congress you have a lot of players here not enough to not going to be the case not in the not in the first year at least or just seems like obama could at least condemn the fact that israel is violating international law by building encroaching on post and then just like the rest of the international community france and and all these countries are saying we don't we condemn this we don't agree with this so for obama to just kind of sit back and just totally ally himself with israel is just i think an insult really and you know let's see if anything changes i fear that it won't hope. things do move forward thank you so much for coming on. really push your time thank you.

i want to get serious i want to talk to you about torture but more importantly the impunity for torturers recently i learned about two u.s. military contractors who claim that u.s. forces detained and tortured them in two thousand and six after they blew the whistle on their employer for illegally running guns the two have since filed a lawsuit against former secretary of defense donald rumsfeld claiming that rumsfeld himself is the one who approved of the torture of the so-called harsh interrogation techniques used on prisoners however the seventh circuit court of appeals said that they don't have the right to sue rumsfeld or anyone else in the military chain of command for that matter now as shocking as it seems for our military to torture whistleblowers who have nothing to do with the forces we're fighting against sadly this story is not unique and u.s.

forces abroad operate and knew from accountability every time we hear about rape murder torture or destruction of property it's always dismissed under the adage war is hell well that's not good enough take the case of don lemon a paramedic for the defense contractor kellogg brown and root a subsidiary of good old halliburton following a rocket attack near her living quarters in southern iraq dawn woke up covered in blood she had been raped and sodomized by an american soldier and one of her very own our colleagues said of her lawyer taking action to support her lehman was ordered by her superiors to keep quiet instead as despicable as don lemon's case is there are countless others like the story of jamie lee jones who was raped by multiple manager k.b.r. camp in iraq when she spoke out about the incident k.b.r. guards locked turn a shipping container and threatened to fire her if she tried to leave or tell anyone about. what happened jamie finally was able to get out and filed

a lawsuit against how burned and its subsidiary now i wish i could say that this story has a happy ending but it doesn't and this is the part that really makes me sick an examination by army doctors showed that she had been raped and analeigh but the rape kits suddenly disappeared after it was handed over to k.b.r. officials not only to jamie lose the case in court but k.b.r. countersued her wanting her to pay the two million dollars they spent in court fees and also for slandering their name home i'm so sorry caveat that torture rape and unlawful to tame it's bad p.r. for you you know it would be a lot easier to sympathize with k.b.r. if this was an isolated incident and if they held the rapists accountable but as we know this other lawlessness with military contractors is systematic this is just another example of the horrible nightmare that is u.s. involvement in iraq don't forget or forget who the number one from opponent for the

war was dick cheney who as it turns out was a former halliburton c.e.o. what a surprise now as much as obama would like to have everyone believe that the war in iraq is over his left behind a huge contingent from the state department along with tens of thousands of armed private contractors who operate above the law but seriously can you blame the people that the u.s. government hires when the us government itself was the one approving torture and creating a legal framework for it people are hurt their lives are ruined forever and all they want is justice but they won't get it because what we're left with today is a culture of impunity where our president has declared that looking forward is more important than restoring the rule of law and holding the war criminals accountable centrally what obama has done is normalize this criminality. and all of the cases and with the government just passing. the bug this missing them is just

a few bad apples but when the courts are throwing out lawsuits against the people that authorize torture and abuse what we're left with is a two tiered justice system who's left to decide who's to blame but yeah but just forget about it we've got four more years to just look forward right.

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